Writing Assignment 3- Ethical Research (10%)
Discussing the purpose of your project, through this essay you will clearly explain how you will successfully reach your research goals ethically. To do this you need to first discuss ethics and what ethical research is. You will have to consider your community in particular and discuss possibly unethical routes a research could take with such a community, clarifying the ethical routes that you will take. You’ll be transparent about possible personal expectations that you have with this community and explain how you will remain objective. With this, you will clarify how your own emotional baggage/biases could hinder your research and explain how you will check all of those at the door to your best ability.
Length: 1000 words (apx 3 pages)
Essay should include at least 1 quote from the class reading
Essay should also include at least 1 reference to one of the Codes of Ethics below

Establish what ethical research/ethics are
Explain what it means to be ethical as a researcher
Discuss your own "code of ethics" -what guidelines have you set for yourself that you'll follow?
Offer specific (possible) examples where you will need to implement your code of ethics
Discuss personal baggage/bias/experience that you will be aware of

You may reference any of these Codes of Ethics as resources for your own code
*make sure you pay attention to how much of your own code is influenced by these codes and avoid plagiarism

http://s3.amazonaws.com/rdcms-aaa/files/production/public/FileDownloads/pdfs/issues/policy-advocacy/upload/AAA-Ethics-Code-2009.pdf

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/proethics/codeofethics/codeethics
http://www.socialworkers.org/pubs/code/default.asp
http://www.prsa.org/AboutPRSA/Ethics/CodeEnglish/#.Va2JQvlViko